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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Digital Artwork Brings Beauty and Variety to a Smart Home
In a smart home the atmosphere is constantly changing, shifting and adapting to your lifestyle. Lights brighten and dim depending on the time of day, window shades lift and lower as issue simple voice commands, music spills at the touch of a button into whichever room you happen to visit. So why shouldn’t the artwork that’s pinned to the walls and propped up on tables also transform?
Thanks to a new technology introduced by Electric Objects (EO), you can change the artwork that’s displayed in your house in an instant. You can choose a bright abstract when you’re entertaining then switch to a landscape the next day. Should you redecorate, you can simply go to the EO app on your iOS or Android smartphone or tablet to select a completely new piece to suit the room’s new design. You selection is displayed on a 23-inch matte-finish, 1080p framed LCD screen. Four different frames are available for the EO2 display: black and white painted frames and walnut and maple wooden frames. The display retails for $299; the frames add $79 and $99 to the cost, respectively.
Once you’ve purchased the EO2 and have downloaded the app, you have free access to more than 30,000 community-uploaded works of photography, animation, and video, plus the ability to upload your own. For more options, you can subscribe for $9.99 a month to the EO Art Club, which provides exclusive access to art commissioned for EO, as well as art from museums and curation partners.
The EO2 display plugs into a standard power outlet, has a built-in Wi-Fi antenna, and ambient light sensors and a sleep timer can dim, brighten and turn on/off the display. It comes with wall mounting hardware and non-slip rubber feet.
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Smart Mattress Promotes Better Sleep; Can Start the Coffee Maker
A good night’s sleep eludes many people, but a new technology developed by Eight, just might be the antidote for all that tossing and turning. The startup company has launched a smart mattress. Designed to replace a traditional mattress, it tracks sleep, warms each side of the bed individually, and connects to other smart home devices. The Eight Smart Mattress is designed with four layers of responsive and high density foam, plus a technology layer. It is available for purchase online starting at $950.
Eight’s team designed the smart mattress by studying over 1.8 million hours of sleep data that have been tracked through the company’s first product — the Eight Sleep Tracker— which by the end of the year will be tracking more than 12,000 people across 67 countries.
“We used anonymized sleep data and the feedback of over 10,000 people, to understand which materials and types of mattresses give customers the best sleep,” says Matteo Franceschetti, CEO at Eight. “Based on our research, we saw an opportunity to create a better mattress. So we designed one with a unique blend of four responsive and high density foam layers that provide optimal comfort and support, plus one layer of our proprietary technology that helps people track and improve their sleep.”
The Eight Smart Mattress includes features that improve the sleep experience, like automatic temperature control for each side of the bed, and connectivity with other smart home devices like thermostats, lights and coffee machines. The mattress contains multiple sensors to track sleep times, deep and light sleep, breathing rate, and measure toss and turns, bed temperature, and room temperature. Over time, the Eight Smart Mattress uses machine learning to build patterns on sleep behaviors, and displays suggestions for sleep improvement in its mobile app. It can also share this data with health tracking apps like Apple’s Health and Google’s Fit.
The Eight Smart Mattress comes in full, queen, king and California king sizes, and Eight is offering a 100-night trial and free returns. It ships compressed in a box, and at no cost to customers in the U.S.
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10 Holiday Lighting Tips for Your Home
As the holiday season approaches, you’ll likely be using your home’s lights a lot more, and in ways that vary from the norm. There may be more people visiting your house and a whirlwind of activity within the household. You might be traveling to kids’ Christmas concerts or even across the country to see loved ones. And of course, there are strings of lights to hang around trees and stretch across fireplace mantels. Yes, your lights will soon go into overdrive; rather than be a slave to wall switches, consider letting technology manage the lighting in your house. It will save time, money, and a lot of aggravation. Here are 10 reasons to automate your home’s lights this holiday season.
- It will help guests find your house. Why tie balloons to the mailbox to show people where the party is when the exterior lights can do the job so much better, and elegantly? Tied to a control system, the exterior lights can blink for a certain period of time as a beacon. When everyone has arrived you can press a on your phone, keypad, or remote to disengage the feature.
- It makes people feel welcome. There’s nothing worse than standing on a dark porch waiting for someone to answer the door. Make sure your guests, carolers, and other visitors feel welcome by having a motion sensor trigger on the porch lights the instant that someone steps into its detection path.
- It gives off the right vibe. Once your guests are inside, you’ll want your house looking its best and to make them feel at home. Dimming the lights can help create a warm and fuzzy feeling; a lighting control system can set multiple dimmers to your preferred levels at the touch of one button on your smartphone. Bam. Instant ambiance. And when the party is in full swing, you can change the mood with brighter lighting, again with another touch of a button.
- It turns on the Christmas spirit in one fell swoop. You’ve spent countless hours stringing lights outside, inside, tied to trees, hooked on fireplace mantels …Whew, it’s a lot of work. But controlling them all doesn’t have to be so tedious when they’re tied to a single control system. A preprogrammed setting (you might call it “Christmas lights”) can activate the decorative luminaries at a certain time each evening and turn everything off at another preset time. Some lighting control systems, like Lutron’s Caseta, can even tie in music. On command from a remote, the Caseta system can activate a favorite playlist on a Sonos system while setting the lights in the family room for a cocktail party, for example.
- It provides a path to the bathroom, up the stairs, to the coat closet, etc. Strategically placed sensors can ensure that visitors can easily find their way to the important places in your house by activating a lighted pathway whenever they detect motion.
- It guest-proofs your house. With people milling about your house, lights are bound to be left on when they shouldn’t be. Motion sensors can signal lights in a powder room or guest bedroom to turn off after someone has left the area. At the same time, you can activate a temporary “do-not-disturb” setting that prevents lights in certain areas—your home office and master suite, for example—from being turned on. This is a signal for guest to stay out.
- It maintains your sanity. Stop fretting over lights being left on in unoccupied parts of your house. You’ve got better things to do, and a lighting control system can let you check the status of every fixture under its command … right from the screen of your smartphone. You’ll know that your house is running as efficiently and as economically as possible – even with those extra strands of lights.
- It frees up your hands. ‘Tis the season to arrive home with armloads of groceries and gifts—and just try to hit the light switch when you’re dragging in a live Christmas tree. Rather than poke around with your elbow to tap a wall switch, tap a button on your smartphone as you pull into the driveway. A lighting control system can hear the command and activate select fixtures.
- It sets a beautiful table … and more. Food and spirits go hand-in-hand with holiday festivities. A lighting control system can arrange the lighting perfectly for food prep, dining, and clean-up afterwards.
- It bids a fond farewell. After all your guests have left you can quickly shut down the house for the night. A “Good Night” command issued from a remote control, smartphone app, or an wall-mounted keypad can signal every light to turn off.
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Paradigm and Revel Outdoor Garden Speakers Preview
A real theme at CEDIA in Dallas, Texas this year was bringing the sound of the indoors to the outside. Many manufacturers such as Revel and Paradigm are making quality weatherproof loudspeakers capable of blending into the landscaping while also providing flexible installation options. Imagine the surprise on your friends and families faces when they try to figure out where all that great sound is coming from. Read on to find out how.
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL2.0 Tube Headphone Amp Review
The MicroZOTL2.0 is a tube amp which represents the latest configuration of the previously adored MicroZOTL by David Berning. The amp, although unconventional in its tuning, shares an agile and intelligible character which make tracks sound incredibly engaging and involving. The clear acrylic top and respectable build also add a touch of premium manufacturing and showcase quality engineering. To find out more about this $1,100 creation, read on…
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Sunday, November 27, 2016
Friday, November 25, 2016
Bowers & Wilkins P7 Wireless Headphones Preview
B&W has released a wireless version of it's acclaimed P7 over-the-ear headphone. The new P7 Wireless maintains all the luxury, fit, character and sound of the original. With support for Bluetooth 4.1 and the aptX codec, you can get near CD-quality streaming. With both a wireless and wired mode, the P7 Wireless looks to be a go-to for audiophiles craving music without wires. Read on to find out more...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
MartinLogan Neolith ESL Loudspeaker Review
Take the legendary name of MartinLogan and marry it with a cost-no-object loudspeaker and you've got the Neolith. This is largest and most expensive loudspeaker that MartinLogan has ever produced. Do the 6ft, nearly 400lb Electrostatic Neoliths deserved to be mentioned in the ranks of the best-of-the-best or did we uncover some chinks in the loudspeaker's armor? Watch our recently added YouTube Video Overview and read our review to find out.
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Top High-Tech Christmas Gifts: Electronic House Wish List
What’s on your holiday wish list? According to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), a record-setting 116 million Americans–almost half the U.S. adult population–plan to purchase tech or tech accessories during Black Friday Week, with TVs, laptop computers, smartphones, videogame consoles, tablet computers, headphones, tech accessories, DVD or Blu-ray Disc players, digital cameras, and wearables topping their shopping lists this year. Drones, virtual reality devices, and digital assistant devices, such as the Amazon Echo or Google Home will also be big sellers, says CTA.
Although these items will be hot this holiday season, there are plenty of other high-tech options to consider, so the editors of Electronic House magazine and sister publication CEPro magazine decided to put together their own wish lists of products they’d love to see under the Christmas tree this year.
Lisa Montgomery, Editor, Electronic House magazine
Roomba or some other robot vac
My son likes alternative rock, my daughter hip-hop, my husband is into country music, and me, I’m stuck in the ‘80s. The only thing we all have in common is that we listen to our music on headphones or scramble to grab the one portable Bluetooth speaker that serves our entire family. That coveted speaker, unfortunately, is hardly ever in my hot little hands. A Sonos system (with speakers in every room) would be an absolute blessing to our domestic bliss. We’d all have access to the music we like and be able to play it wherever we like … and order up our preferences via the smartphones that have become a common fixture in our pockets. And now that Sonos can integrate with a Lutron lighting system, it’s even better. From one remote, I’d be able to set the music and the lights to create the perfect atmosphere for entertaining guests.
Outdoor TV
Jason Knott, Editor, CEPro magazine
Ever since Amazon Echo came on the scene and started integrating with various home automation devices, voice control has become all the rage. We use Alexa to run several Lutron Caseta wireless lights (with geo-fencing hooked to our mobile phones), create a shopping list, act as a cooking timer, and listen to my obscure Surf Rock Radio station (my wife would say incessantly). Strangely, Alexa has trouble responding to my eight-year-old daughter’s high-pitched voice. But now the new $130 Google Home hub is out and promises to take voice control to a new level by harnessing Google’s deep search engine for more conversational and practical speech recognition.
Lutron Serena Shades
We have a 141-year-old house that is a converted barn. The floor joists are logs, the windows are original rope and sash, and the entire interior walls are wood boards butted against each other … not even tongue and groove. So, while it looks really neat, it creaks and leaks air, and inside it is very dark. We’ve added skylights, lots of ceiling can lights, and transom windows to brighten the interior. For privacy, we have thick wooden blinds on the windows that complement the interior walls. But it makes for quite a daily task to open the blinds (especially on the south-facing side of the home) to let solar heat warm the home. So, Lutron Serena shades are on my Christmas Wish List. I am just not sure the battery power will be able to drive our heavy wooden blinds.
Smart Thermostat or Ecovent
Julie Jacobson, Founding Editor, CEPro magazine
I’ve always thought motorized shades were a killer app. Our last house had a bank of windows so monstrous it would have been challenging to have a system installed. Now we’re in a much more manageable space, so it’s time! Our loft-style master bedroom will never get dark without them.
White Noise Machine
Both my husband and I are so used to sleeping with a fan on, it’s hard to sleep without it. When it’s too cold, we simply face the fan away from the bed. When we travel, we toss and turn all night. So I’m intrigued by the Nightingale, a “smart home sleep system” from the acoustics experts at Cambridge Sound. Plug two units into opposite walls and they will calibrate the system to envelop the space with your choice of ambient noise. It beats local noise machines that typically blast white noise in one direction. Nightingale is still in Kickstarter mode.
Chelsea Cafiero, Senior Web Editor, CEPro magazine
Honeywell Lyric Thermostat
I like Nest too, but Lyric supposedly has better HVAC control than Nest because it takes into account the weather outside and even the humidity as it cools down or heats up your home.
Tado Smart AC Control Thermostat
Anything to save money on electricity, and it helps to be a little more green and less harmful to the planet, too.
Robert Archer, Senior Editor, CEPro magazine
Nest Thermostat
Ring Doorbell
Lutron Caseta
I already have a basic Caseta system and it is great. I would love to add another zone of Caseta lighting to update my kids’ playroom with an easy-to-use, and install Caseta dimmer.
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Adventure Park Designer Adds Aerial Sports Gym to His House
Zane Hansen helps to develop extreme recreation parks throughout the country. His company connects families with clean entertainment and adrenaline-packed experiences. So, when he recently built his 13,000-square foot home in Mapleton, Utah, he decided it was a good time to incorporate an indoor aerial sport obstacle gym for his family and friends to enjoy.
Technology Breeds a Healthy Lifestyle
“We have five young kids who each have an enormous amount of energy,” Hansen says. “I thought it would be fun to create an environment that would allow for more active family time. My wife and I both agree there are too many kids sitting around these days. Recreation is a key element for a healthy lifestyle.”
Complete with a “Ninja Course,” rock climbing wall, aerial silks, custom wall murals, and a basketball court, the home required a way to seamlessly control the indoor aerial sport obstacle gym’s lighting and audio to differentiate its environment from the rest of the home. To design a reliable home automation system, Hansen called on local technology integrator Luke Whatcott of Greenline Home Solutions. Whatcott relied on an ELAN Entertainment and Control System as the central hub of the home’s entire technological ecosystem.
Fun Fitness, Easy Control
“Control at the touch of a button is really important for Zane to create a unique environment within the gym than in the rest of the home,” Whatcott says. “Whether he’s traveling for business or working in his home office, the ELAN system offers seamless control of every element.”
Powerful Audio for a Big Room
Beyond enabling total control, Whatcott and his team were tasked with designing a powerful audio system that delivers a deep bass. With 21-foot-high ceilings in a room that Whatcott describes as an “enormous box,” generating crystal clear sound was a challenge. “Their company is used to having elaborate audio systems in their parks, so audio was an extremely important component of this installation,” Whatcott continues. “We had to use high-end speakers and subwoofers to truly deliver.”
To make sure that the music would be felt and not just heard, Whatcott mounted two Sunfire XTEQ subwoofers in the upper corners of the gym, with SpeakerCraft CRS in-ceiling speakers installed throughout. “The Sunfire and SpeakerCraft products make a great pair,” Whatcott notes. “Together, they create the sound that we were looking for; the in-ceiling speakers direct the sound while the subwoofers really deliver the power.”
Lights Move with the Beat
The gym’s audio system is tied into the lighting system; the black lights and LED lights can “listen” to the beat of the music and “dance” in different arrangements. “We wanted to do something really cool by marrying the lighting and the audio, and we were able to do that pretty easily,” Whatcott adds. “Zane is also able to control the lighting and the music together with one of his two gHR200 remotes or with the ELAN app on his smartphone.”
Custom Cinema Provides Sensory Experience
Although Hansen and his family officially moved into the home a few months ago, they had time to watch the ELAN system in action while the home was showcased in the Utah Valley Parade of Homes. “I have never used a home automation system before,” Hansen concludes. “Through the showcase, I was able to get a grasp on what it does and what it will do for my family. I am so excited to continue to use it for entertainment, security and beyond.”
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Powerful Whole-House Amp Drives High Res Audio Playback
When someone mentions the name Meridian, often the ensuing discussion centers on digital audio and home theater. Throughout its history, Meridian has earned a position as a market leader in the digital audio category and today, as the home audio market evolves, the company is proactively taking its digital expertise and applying it to categories like whole-house audio.
To that end, Meridian has announced its new 258 Eight Channel Power Amplifier.
“The new Meridian 258 Eight Channel Power Amplifier delivers a premium experience in a small and efficient, cold-running chasis that’s easily integrated into multiroom audio systems and more,” says Ryan Donaher, vice president, sales and marketing, Meridian America. “As a brand that is committed to Hi-Res audio and delivering the best possible experience for any application, we understand the importance of seamless integration.
The 1U-high amp incorporates Class D amplification technologies that enable the amp to produce 70-watts of power into an 8-ohm load, 100-watts of power into a 4-ohm, and because of its Class D architecture, the amp runs cools without the aid of cooling fans, which could potentially add noise to its operation.
The U.K.-based company also points out the 258 doesn’t compromise performance and reliability either. The amp employs an aluminum chassis and audiophile-grade internal components to fully support the playback of high-resolution audio content in whole-house audio systems.
The new Meridian 258 Eight Channel Power Amplifier retails for $2,000.
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7 Lowe’s Products to Prep Your House for the Holidays
Many people know the main benefits of smart home technology – it improves energy efficiency, provides home security, etc. – but what many don’t know is how it can help turn you into a better host and ease your holiday preparations at home. Here are a few ways simple smart home devices can save you time and create a less stressful holiday this year:
- Comfy quarters: Install a connected space heater in those hard-to-heat areas of your home, warming up the garage apartment or mother-in-law suite to provide comfy quarters for your guests. You can control the device from your smartphone, worry-free.
o Solution: Iris hub + Connected Duraflame Heater
- Safe & well lit path: By lining your pathway with LED lights, you can ensure that carolers and other guests make it safely from the street to your front porch…without spraining an ankle or trampling the garden.
o Solution: Iris hub + LED Path Lights
- Accomplice in the kitchen: Cooking for the holidays this year? With a connected smart switch, you’ll be able to start and stop any kitchen appliance from your phone and even set a timer so your dishes turn out just right.
o Solution: Iris Wi-Fi Smart Switch
- Snow in the forecast?: Call out to a personal voice assistant to learn the forecast tomorrow, the score of the big game or activate any of your other smart home devices.
o Solution: Iris hub + Amazon Echo
- Guest room perfection: Create the perfect stay by setting a scene to turn the guest bedroom lights on in the evening and using motion sensors to activate lights in the hall.
o Solution: Iris hub + Smart Plug + Motion Sensor
- Away for the holidays: If you’re traveling instead of hosting this year, there’s no need to fear leaving your home behind – with a smart home security system, you can keep tabs on your home and get notified if there’s an intrusion or burglary.
o Solution: Iris hub + Indoor Outdoor Camera + Contact Sensor
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Motorized Ambient Light Rejecting Screens Ideal for Any Room
In the “old days” of home theater, people sat in a dark room where the only thing visible was the screen. That’s a perfectly fine approach, but times have changed, and today many people have chosen to locate their theater gear in a room where there’s plenty of light—from lamps, windows, and even fixtures in adjacent spaces. It’s a trend that’s sparked the development of screens designed to combat artificial and natural lighting so that the image on its surface remains as bright and vivid as it would in a pitch dark room.
Elite Prime Vision offers a new series of ALR (ambient light rejecting) projection screens, PolarMax Tab-Tension. The screens are motorized down when you want to watch and up into a casing when you’re using the room for other activities. Available in a 92” to 135” diagonal sizes in a 16:9 aspect ratio, they feature EPV’s award winning PolarMax 1.3 gain material. They are ISF certified for accurate color fidelity while maintaining superior contrast enhancement, color saturation, and brightness retention. In addition to negating the washout effects of ambient light, the material is 4K/8K Ultra HD, Active 3D, HDR ready. It is also tab-tension reinforced for optimal screen flatness.
The design is housed in a stylish aluminum casing which has aesthetically pleasing sleek lines that will complement any interior decor. Its sliding installation brackets mount quickly and snap the PolarMax into place. Because the brackets slide horizontally, the screen will be perfectly centered every time.
It has a standard power connection and also features RS232 ports. Its control features include an in-line up/stop/down toggle switch on the endcap for easy operation. A full IR/RF, control kit also accompanies the screen. This includes remotes, extended IR “eye” for hidden installations, and a 12 volt trigger that synchronizes screen operation with the projector’s power cycle.
Prices start at $ 2,074.
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Modular Theater Can Be Assembled Right At Home
Delivering surround formats to home theaters can be a tricky project, but with the right speaker configuration, it gets easier. James Loudspeaker has announced its Modular Indoor/Outdoor Theater, an innovative approach to delivering immersive sound to any environment in a high-performance, fully custom freestanding form factor.
James says the product is a built-to-size aluminum structure to be assembled onsite, housing all of the required loudspeaker components for any surround format. The system is compatible with an array of subwoofer options depending on the décor and acoustic requirements of each room.
The James Loudspeaker Modular Indoor/Outdoor Theater can be used for all three immersive audio formats; Dolby Atmos, Auro3D and DTS:X as well as conventional 5.1 or 7.1 surround formats based on the speaker configuration selected.
Conceived as a fully customizable freestanding solution, the Modular Indoor/Outdoor Theater is capable of delivering superb cinematic performance to an existing room without the need for any modifications to the space.
As an outdoor theater, the free-standing powder coated aluminum structure is ideally suited and can be mated to an array of landscape subwoofer options such as subterranean models for the most discreet visual presentation.
Each custom configured James Loudspeaker Modular Indoor/Outdoor Theater, which starts at $60,000, is composed of aluminum with marine-grade coatings to withstand outdoor environments and features sealed beam construction for compact size.
The package can be ordered in 15 standard colors, or a custom color at additional charge. Source components and amplification sold separately.
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3 Stellar Home Theater Systems for the Holidays
Gift giving is never easy. Figuring out what to buy each member of your family, actually finding those items, and hoping once they are purchased that they’ll be huge hits are reasons enough to inspire some families to skip individual presents for one big gift that everyone will appreciate.
Before you book a family trip to a tropical destination as your universal present-to-all, consider adding a killer entertainment system to your home. Complete with a big screen, surround-sound system, and media player that’s able to dole out a massive array of content, it’s a gift that everyone, regardless of age of gender, will be thrilled to unwrap on Christmas morning.
So start planning now. If you’ll be putting together a system yourself, you’ll need plenty of time to put all the pieces together. Of course, a professional home theater designer can help—and we’ve asked a few to provide us with their recommendations—they range from $7,000 to $50,000, and most designers offer flexible payment options. And remember, nothing beats the handiwork of a professional, so call one in your area now to make sure there’s enough time to complete the project before Santa slides down the chimney. Our three experts have suggested screens, speakers, source equipment, as well as a control system to simplify operating all the gear.
System #1
Recommended by: Rich Conklin, ResCom Integration, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Surround Speakers & Subwoofer: Sonance SUR.5S In-Ceiling Surround Speakers (4) and Sonance SUB 10-150 Subwoofer. Each of the four speakers in this package is designed to fit into a standard ceiling cavity and feature an angled driver for accurate imaging and clear dialogue. The subwoofer can be integrated into cabinetry or hidden behind furniture. It features an integrated amplifier.
The Audio/Video Receiver: Sony STR-ZA2000ES. This 7.2 channel receiver delivers 100 watts per channel, and is ideally suited for streaming 4K content, thanks to a built-in HDCP 2.2 repeater, six HDMI inputs, and two outputs. It supports DTS-HD and Dolby True HD audio.
Another Source: AppleTV. Hands-down this is one of the most versatile media servers on the market. Access to all kinds of apps, streaming music, videos, and photos from the cloud or your iPad/iPhone, and most recently, integration Apple HomeKit devices, which means your Apple TV hub can relay commands from your iPhone or iPad to thermostats, light switches and more.
Approximate Cost: $10,760 (excludes professional installation)
System #2
Recommended by Andrew Davis, Gramophone, Timonium, Md.
The Display: Stewart Filmscreen, 110-inch, 16:9 screen.
The Surround Speakers & Subwoofer: Golden Ear Technology 
The Audio/Video Receiver: Integra DSX-3. This 6.1 channel receiver delivers 80 watts per channel and supports virtually all lossless audio formats for high-res audio reproduction. It also supports Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, and can be integrated with home automation systems.
Approximate Cost: $6,999 (excludes professional installation)
System #3
Recommended by: Dan Paulson, Paulson’s Audio & Video, Farmington Hills, Michigan
The Display: Screen Innovations 120-inch Black Diamond Zero Edge with LED. This ambient light
The Video Projector: Sony VPLVW365ES 4K SXRD Home Cinema Projector. This projector produces 1,500 lumens of brightness and upscales Blu-ray Discs and DVD movies to near 4K quality.
The Projector Mount: Chief RPMAU Ceiling Mount
The Subwoofer Amplifier: B&W SA1000. This Class D subwoofer amplifier can drive two subwoofers and has an output of 1,000 watts.
The Audio/Video Receiver: Integra DRX-R1. This 11.2 channel receiver is an object-based surround processor that can handle Dolby Atmos and DTS:X setups. It delivers 140 watts per channel, and is THX-certified and able to handle high-res audio formats.
The Source: Oppo Digital BDP-103D Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player. This player is fully compatible with Blu-ray 3D discs and can stream HD video from VUDU, CinemaNow, and others, as well as music from Pandora, Rhapsody, and other sites.
The Audio/Video Cabinet: Salamander Designs Oslo 247. This sleek low-profile cabinet can be mounted to the wall for a modern appearance. Its smoked glass doors are framed in aluminum.
Approximate Cost: $47,497 (excludes tax, wire, and professional installation)
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